I asked, and now you may enjoy the bounty. Painless_j's picks for Harry/Snape.

[icarus]

I asked, and now you may enjoy the bounty.

I asked painless_j what she thought were the must-reads of the Harry Potter fandom. She felt only qualified to pick the Harry/Snape and Harry/Draco pairings.

So, drumroll please... for Harry/Snape.

Snarry, long.

Civil War series, by Sushi
http://www.walkingtheplank.org/archive/viewseries.php?seriesid=3

Cambiare Podentes: Invocare, by Jordan Grant
http://www.walkingtheplank.org/archive/viewuser.php?uid=1073

If You Are Prepared, by Cybele
http://www.swish-n-flick.netfirms.com/images/coverpages/iyap_cover.htm

The Mirror of Maybe, by Midnight Blue (gah! but it's a fic that everybody read)
http://www.greyblue.net/MidnightBlue/story.php?storyid=2

A Nick In Time and sequel, Growing Pains, by Tira Nog
http://www.walkingtheplank.org/archive/viewstory.php?sid=799
http://www.walkingtheplank.org/archive/viewstory.php?sid=80&warning=4

The Same Coin, by Meri
http://solo4.abac.com/CircuitArchive/TheSameCoin.html

Sanguis-Vinculum, by Meri
http://solo4.abac.com/CircuitArchive/SanguisVinculum.htm

Tea Series, by Telanu
http://telanu.thirteenblackbirds.net/

Medium-length

Absolution, by Rushlight
http://slashcity.org/rushlight/hp/absolution.htm

Clipped Wings, by Teka Lynn
http://www.walkingtheplank.org/archive/viewstory.php?sid=100

Consanguinity Arc, by Jay Tryfanstone
http://tryfanstone.co.uk/warning.htm

Contemporary Magical Innovations, by H. Granger, by Kai
http://www.squidge.org/~kali/hp/cmi.html

The Courtship of Harry Potter, by Diana Williams
http://diana.slashcity.com/Potter/courtship.htm

The Dreaming Spires, by DementorDelta
http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=4559

Hall of the Mountain Kings, by Tara Tory
http://inkstain.inkquill.net/isf/archive/12/hallof.html

A Life More Ordinary, by Lexin
http://inkstain.inkquill.net/isf/archive/5/alife.html

Parseltongue-tied, by DementorDelta
http://www.skyehawke.com/archive/story.php?no=386

Snape: The Home Fries Nazi, by Pir8fancier
http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=12372

So Lonely Without Me, by Calligraphy
http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=5658

Shortish

The Care Of Infants, by Perfica (Stellahobbit)
http://www.walkingtheplank.org/archive/viewstory.php?sid=2228

The Challenge, by Cybele
http://www.swish-n-flick.netfirms.com/stories/thechallenge.htm

The Cure, by Nimori
http://www.the-archive.net/viewstory.php?sid=55

Disarmed and The Key to the Kingdom, by Luthien
http://luthien.ebonyx.org/docs/fic/disarmed.html
http://luthien.ebonyx.org/docs/fic/key.html

Edited, by Predatrix
http://predatrix.slashcity.org/fiction/edited.htm

The Familiar, by Resonant
http://trickster.org/res/familiar.html

Fly-fishing for Beginners, by Jay Tryfanstone
http://tryfanstone.co.uk/warning.htm

Fool, by Kass
http://www.trickster.org/kass/fool.html

The Life Debt, by Rushlight
http://www.slashcity.org/rushlight/hp/lifedebt.htm

The Love Song of Bastard and Idiot, by Predatrix
http://www.walkingtheplank.org/archive/viewstory.php?sid=151&warning=4

Comments

[whatifisaidno.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I love half of those and I hate the other half.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

What would you consider your Harry/Snape must-reads, other than the ones on this list?

[whatifisaidno.livejournal.com]

All of mine are pre-DH, which is when I stopped reading Harry Potter fanfiction.

A Bittersweet Potion series (www.intertexius.com) by Alchemia and Bugland

The J. Alfred Prufrock Arc (”http://www.skyehawke.com/archive/authors.php?no=385”) by Vain

No Good Deed (http://www.etc.slashcity.net/maeglin/viewstory.php?sid=149) by Maeglin Yedi

Pigfeathers (http://intertexius.com/fic/categories.php?catid=28&parentcatid=28) by Alchemia and Bugland

The Price of Magic (”http://sinick.insanejournal.com/32969.html”) by sinick and ac1d6urn

Something to Write on (http://www.swish-n-flick.netfirms.com/stories/stwo.htm) and Quill and Ink (http://www.swish-n-flick.netfirms.com/stories/quill_and_ink.htm") by Cybele

The Fourth Year (http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=11420) by Calligraphy

The Fire Escape (http://rinsbane.livejournal.com/37697.html) by rinsbane

Fall into Charybdis (http://brandyquill.livejournal.com/938.html) by Balthazar Brandyquill (a.k.a. Nimori)

Night Watch (http://www.thebejeweledgreenbottle.com/2007%20winter%20games/Team%20Postwar/Night%20Watch.htm) by Mia Ugly

In Between Days (”http://atrata.slashcity.org/hp/ibd.html”) by atrata

[enname.livejournal.com]

I think I am echoing whatifisaidno actually.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

My actual question to her was "what do you consider Harry Potter fanfic canon?"

She said she could only make those choices for Harry/Snape and Harry/Draco, and these were her picks. She has some stories she doesn't particularly like (The Mirror of Maybe being one) that she considers canon because of their following.

I just wanted to avoid the label of "canon" on my post, which in my experience at least, could make people go a little nuts.

[enname.livejournal.com]

Mm, it is just interesting because about half of those I would run screaming at, no matter how much I might agree that they are considered canon. It is quite possible that I would have a better reaction to the word canon, rather than considering them as must reads to anyone who is entering the SS/HP end of HP fandom. Apparently I have no problem acknowledging that fandom has bad taste (yes, yes, my bias I know!) every now and then, but I draw the line on insisting everyone partake of it.

*snort* Just goes to show that I am odd.

*glares at thesis* ONE MORE PARAGRAPH IN THE CONCLUSION AND THEN I CAN GO TO BED. *shakes it hard* Come on, you are then officially complete barring edit nitpicks.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should call it HP Harry/Snape canon then. It just seemed... cocky.

[thalia]

Interesting list--I think I'd agree that these are all part of S/H history, even the ones I'm not wild about. I think I'd add a story or two by miraminx, maybe Till Break of Day and One Warm Beautiful Thing, or A Good Buy.

Thanks for asking and posting!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

My actual question for painless_j was "what do you consider canon for Harry Potter fanfic?" This was her answer for Harry/Snape. (Sigh. Sometimes Primer to the Dark Arts is included in the canon and sometimes it isn't.) But when I posted it I didn't want to make that claim to canon. :)

[pervert-bitch.livejournal.com]

Fuck, all of those are clasic snarry... even the new-ish ones :P

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Yep. That is the point. A (hopefully) classic Harry/Draco list shall be posted this weekend, barring any RL emergencies.

[blacknblue2.livejournal.com]

I'm just really glad you did this. For the past couple days I've been slogging my way through fanfic sites trying to find something...y'know, good.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

There's more coming. painless_j also provided a Harry/Draco canon list as well.

[ladyflowdi.livejournal.com]

Thank you so very much for posting this! I love the odd engrossing HP story, and stayed up till three in the morning reading Cambiare Podentes. Thank you again to the both of you for pointing these stories out!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

You're welcome, although I give painless_j all the credit. (Cambiare Podentes is addictive, I agree.) I plan to post the Harry/Draco lists this weekend.

[blue-underwing.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the list! I'm still feeling rather new the HP fic (even after more than half a year) so I really appreciate lists like this. ^_^

I'm have pretty much the same reaction as a couple people up stream: I love half of them and hate the others. Actually, it's more I stopped reading half of them when I determined they were running in the direction of my squicks (a policy I wish everyone would follow) but all the ones I finished, I loved to bits. I'd say that makes it a very good list indeed.

Now off to explore the ones I haven't read.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Marvelous. I have the Harry/Draco list to post this weekend. *nods*

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

a policy I wish everyone would follow

Heh. Guilty as charged. I read Cambiare all the way through, even though it horrified me. (Please note: I did not comment/email the author re: my aversion.) Egad. Squick city. (And not just the rape squick; it also hit my "awful characterisation" squick bang on the head.)

Given that, it seems a little... specialised in its following, to me, to qualify as the "HP/SS Canon". But maybe it is, and I just don't know all those people who love it?

Eh. (Was very surprised to see "The Fourth Year" wasn't on there, though! And "Courage Under Fire"!)